Re: large ide raid system

2000-01-17 Thread Michael
> I do not know about performance, but if you build raid array using > masters and slaves on same channel, it will lack redudancy because > of if master dies, it will take slave with it ? So raid1 or raid5 > using masters AND slaves is totally unwise? > I can only speak from experience. I have

Re: ReiserFS and RAID1

2000-01-17 Thread KS
>On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 12:57:43PM +0100, KS wrote: >> Hi there, >> We are currently running RAID1 on some of our servers. We have thre ext2 >> filesystem. However we are considering seting up some test server to check how >> much using ReiserFS would improve the speed. >> >> On their pages the

Re: ReiserFS and RAID1

2000-01-17 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 12:57:43PM +0100, KS wrote: > Hi there, > We are currently running RAID1 on some of our servers. We have thre ext2 > filesystem. However we are considering seting up some test server to check how > much using ReiserFS would improve the speed. > > On their pages they say t

Re: large ide raid system

2000-01-17 Thread Mika Kuoppala
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Keith Underwood wrote: > I also experimented with the master/slave setup, and my recollection is > also that it was worse than half the performance of the master only setup. > > Keith > I do not know about performance, but if you build raid array using masters and slaves

Re: large ide raid system

2000-01-17 Thread Mika Kuoppala
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Thomas Waldmann wrote: > > Cable length is not so much a pain as the number of cables. Of course with > > scsi you want multiple channels anyway for performance, so the situation > > is very similar to ide. A cable mess. > > Well, it is at least only a half / third / ... o

Re: [profmad@mindspring.com: Raid Help]

2000-01-17 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, James Manning wrote: > [ Friday, January 14, 2000 ] jesse nelson wrote: > > I had the same problem the default kernel is not patched on 6.0 or 6.1 > > installs although they include the 0.90 tools. I think the up2date RPM's are > > though. I just moved to Mandrake 7.Beta an

RE: loose cables on external raid device

2000-01-17 Thread Bryan Batchelder
I may be wrong, but it is my understanding that the 'Halt on errors' in the system BIOS is for while the system is coming up (when the BIOS is coming up). These are errors like when you have no video card, no keyboard, or harddrive errors). Setting 'halt on errors' to 'none' will usuallly allow

ADAPTEC AAA-131U2

2000-01-17 Thread Christien Bunting
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Re: [patch] Integrated Buffer-Cache, ext2fs speedups, new RAID for2.3.40

2000-01-17 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > here is the first alpha version of the '2.4 RAID merge' patch against > pre4-2.3.40: > > http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/ibc-ext2-raid-2.3.40-N1 > Doesn't work for me. When booting system locks up with the following output: ll_rw_block: Tryi

ReiserFS and RAID1

2000-01-17 Thread KS
Hi there, We are currently running RAID1 on some of our servers. We have thre ext2 filesystem. However we are considering seting up some test server to check how much using ReiserFS would improve the speed. On their pages they say that their filesystem works with RAID1 , but not with RAID5. Anot

[patch] Integrated Buffer-Cache, ext2fs speedups, new RAID for 2.3.40

2000-01-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
here is the first alpha version of the '2.4 RAID merge' patch against pre4-2.3.40: http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/ibc-ext2-raid-2.3.40-N1 which implements three more or less independent (but related) features: - Integrated Buffer-Cache - improved new-style RAID merged in

Re: loose cables on external raid device

2000-01-17 Thread root
Eric Enockson wrote: > > hello, I have an external raid scsi device with > a loose cable. It would come loose and things would freeze > up on the machine, and then i would push it back in and > the system would come back. Now however i get somewhat > random operating system crashes. At

Raid with Kernel 2.3.x

2000-01-17 Thread root
Hello everybody, due to the fact that I'm new in the group, let me put a propably silly question: - Will raidtools 0.90 work any longer with Kernel 2.3.x? - Are there propably some whitepapers of the authors somewhere? Thank you for your answers. Best regards Wolfgang Magin